Department of Statistics
Professor Emeritus Gideon Weiss
Address: Department of Statistics, University of Haifa, Israel 3498838
Tel: 972-4-8249004 Fax: 972-4-8253849
E.mail: gweiss@stat.haifa.ac.il
Higher Education
Ph.D.,Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, England,1974.
Research interests
Manufacturing systems, Optimization of stochastic systems, Applied probability and Stochastic processes, Time series analysis, Optimization.
Books
Scheduling and Control of Queueing Networks,
Cambridge University Press, 2021
Selected Publications
[abstract, full paper]
G. Weiss “Optimal Draining of a Fluid Re-Entrant Line” in Stochastic Networks — IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications 71, Editors: F.P. Kelly and Ruth Williams, pp. 93–105, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995. [abstract, full paper]
Dai, J.G. and Weiss, G. “Stability and Instability of Fluid Models for certain Re-Entrant Lines” Mathematics of Operations Research 21, 115–134, 1996. [abstract, full paper]
B. Levikson, T. Rolski, G. Weiss “On a Poisson Hyperbolic Staircase” Probability Engineering Informational Sciences, 13 pp. 11–32, 1999. [abstract, full paper]
B. Levikson, T. Rolski, G. Weiss “Layering of the Poisson Process in the Quadrant” Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Wroclaw), 21, 417–440, 2001. [abstract, full paper]
Dai, J.G. and Weiss, G. “A Fluid Heuristic for Minimizing Makespan in Job-Shops” Operations Research, 50 692–707, 2002. [abstract, full paper]
Weiss, G. “Jackson networks with unlimited supply of work and full utilization”, Journal of Applied Probability 42:879-882, 2005. [abstract, full paper]
Jochen Mundinger, Richard Weber and Gideon Weiss “Optimal scheduling of peer to peer file dissemination” Journal of Scheduling, 11:105-120, 2008. [abstract, full paper]
Weiss, G., "A Simplex Based Algorithm to Solve Separated Continuous Linear Programs" Mathematical Programming Series A, 115:151-198, 2008. [ abstract or full paper ]
Nazarathy, Y, Weiss, G., "The Asymptotic Variance Rate of the Output Process of Finite Capacity Birth-Death Queues" Queueing Systems Theory and Applications, 57:135-156, 2008 [ abstract or full paper ]
Nazarathy, Y, Weiss, G., "Near optimal control of queueing networks over a finite time horizon" Annals of Operations Research, 170:233-249, 2009. [ abstract or full paper ]
Kopzon, A, Nazarathy, Y., Weiss, G., "A push pull system with infinite supply of work" Queueing Theory Systems and Applications, 62:75-111, 2009. [ abstract or full paper ]
Caldentey, R., Kaplan, E.H., Weiss, G., "FCFS infintie bipartite matching of servers and customers" Advances in Applied Probability, 41: 695-730, 2009. [ abstract or full paper ]
Nazarathy, Y., Weiss, G., "Positive Harris Recurrence and Diffusion Scale Analysis of a Push Pull Queueing Network" Perfornance Evaluation, 67:201-217, 2010. [ abstract or full paper ]
Nazarathy, Y., Weiss, G., "A fluid approach to job shop scheduling: theory, software and experimentation" Journal of Scheduling 13:509-529, 2010. [ abstract or full paper ]
Adan, Ivo, Hurkens, Cor, Weiss, Gideon, "A reversible loss system with multi-type customers and multi-type servers" Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences 24:535-548, 2010. [ abstract or full paper ]
Adan, Ivo and Weiss, Gideon, "Exact FCFS matching rates for two infinite muti-type sequences" Operations Research, 60:475-489, 2012. [ abstract or full paper ]
Visschers, Jeremy, Adan, Ivo and Weiss, Gideon, "A product form solution to a system with multi-type jobs and multi-type servers" Queueing Theory Systems and Applications 70:269-298, 2012. [ abstract or full paper ]
Adan, Ivo and Weiss, Gideon, "A loss system with skill based servers under assign to longest idle server policy" Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 26:307-321, 2012. [ abstract or full paper ]
Blanghaps Nafna, Nov Yuval and Weiss Gideon, "Sojourn Time Estimation in an M/G/Infinity Queue with Partial Information" J. Applied Probability, 50:1044-1056, 2013. [ abstract or full paper ]
Yongjiang Guo, Erjen Lefeber , Yoni Nazarathy, Hanqin Zhang and Gideon Weiss, "Stability and performance for multi-class queueing networks with infinite virtual queues" Queueing Systems, online 17/5/2013. [abstract, full paper]
Ivo Adan, Marko Boon and Gideon Weiss, "Design and evaluation of call centers with skill based routing, under FCFS policies" Performance Evaluation, 70(10):873-888, 2013. [ abstract or full paper ]
Evgeny Shindin and Gideon Weiss, "Symmetric Strong Duality for a Class of Continuous Linear Program with Constant Coefficients" SIAM J on Optimization, 24(3):1102-1121, 2014.[abstract, full paper ]
Ivo Adan and Gideon Weiss, "A Queue with Skill Based Service Under FCFS-ALIS: Steady State, Overloaded System, and Behavior under Abandonments" Stochastic Systems, 4(1):250-299, 2014. [ abstract, full paper ]
Evgeny Shindin and Gideon Weiss, "Structure of solutions for continuous linear programs with constant coefficients" SIAM J on Optimization, 25(3):1276-1297, 2015. [ abstract, full paper ]
Esther Frostig and Gideon Weiss, "Four proofs of Gittins' multiarmed bandit theorem" Annals of Operations Research, 241(1):127--165, 2016. [abstract, full paper ]
Gideon Weiss and Dongyuan Zhan "Many Server Scaling of the N-System Under FCFS-ALIS” Queueing Systems 88(1-2), 27-71, 2018. [Abstract, full paper]
Ivo Adan, Ana Busic, Jean Mairesse and Gideon Weiss “Reversibility and further properties of FCFS infinite bipartite matching”, Mathematics of Operations Research 43(2):598-621, (2018) [abstract, full paper].
Ivo Adan, Igor Kleiner, Rhonda Righter and Gideon Weiss “FCFS parallel service systems and matching models.”, Performance Evaluation 127: 253-272 (2018) [abstract, full paper].
Ivo Adan, Marko Boon and Gideon Weiss “Design heuristic for parallel many server systems” European Journal of Operational Research, 273(1), 259-277, 2019. [abstract, full paper]
Ivo Adan, Sergey Foss, Seva Shneer, Gideon Weiss ``Local stability in a transient Markov chain''
Statistics & Probability Letters 165:108855, 2020.
Evgeny Shindin and Gideon Weiss “ A simplex-type algorithm for continuous linear programs with constant coefficients.” Mathematical Programming, 180:157--201, 2020 [abstract, full paper]
Gideon Weiss ``Directed FCFS infinite bipartite matching''. Queueing Systems, 96(3):387--418, 2020.
Sheldon Ross, Gideon Weiss, Zhengyu Zhang ``A Stochastic Assignment Problem with Unknown Eligibility Probabilities'' Operations Research, 69(1):266--272, 2021.
Shindin, E., Masin, M., Weiss, G., Zadorojniy, A. ``Revised SCLP-simplex Algorithm with application to large-scale fluid processing networks'' 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 3863-3868). IEEE, 2021.
Yuval Nov, Gideon Weiss, Hanqin Zhang ``Fluid models of parallel service systems under FCFS'' Operations Research 70(2):1182-1218, 2022.
Gideon Weiss ``Parallel multi-type server conjecture'' Queueing Systems, 100:269-271, 2022.
Patents
U.S. Patents 6,922,593, July 2005, and 7,433,742, October 2008, “Control of items in a complex system by using fluid models and solving continuous linear programs”
Presentations
Control of manufacturing systems: fluid solution by SCLP (separated continuous LP) and fluid tracking using IVQs (infinite virtual queues): Keynote Talk, EURO XXIII, Bonn, July 2009
FCFS Infinite bipartite matching and parallel skill based service systems: Presented at IWAP 2012, Bedlewo, NUS Singapore 2014
Summary talk: Presented at workshop in Haifa, June 2012